Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleventh hour." Obote immediately accused the King of high treason, surrounded the palace with troops. Then from the top of Mengo Hill came a sound seldom heard: the deep, buckskin thump of the royal war drums summoning Buganda's 2,000,000 subjects to rise to defend their King...
Mass Graves. But they were no match for the machine guns and artillery of Obote's army. After two days of fighting there was no palace left to defend. Great columns of yellow smoke rose over the rubble of Mengo Hill and the hillside was littered with fallen Bu ganda warriors. Cordons of troops prevented Red Cross workers from reaching most of the dead and wounded, but volunteers managed to carry more than 200 bodies to the central police morgue: the rest were hauled away at night in army trucks and dumped into mass graves, uncounted...
...effective. Under pressures from the Viet Nam war, the Pentagon has already ordered a "drawdown" of 30,000 officers and specialists from Europe', may yet have to withdraw whole combat contingents. But no pull-out is in sight that would bring into question the U.S. commitment to defend Europe-unless the Russians agree to pull their forces out of East Germany...
...point McNamara even skimmed daringly close to saying that the U.S. has no moral or legal obligation to defend such beleaguered regimes as that of South Viet Nam. "Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the U.S. is, should or could be the global gendarme," he said. "The U.S. has no mandate from on high to police the world and no inclination to do so. There have been classic cases in which our deliberate nonaction was the wisest policy of all. Where our help is not sought, it is seldom prudent to volunteer. Military force can help provide...
...defend himself, Freedman is publishing his lecture in the forthcoming Michigan Law Review. He was not prescribing perjury, he says, he was merely discussing conflicts in the U.S. adversary system. In theory, that system produces truth and justice by pitting lawyers in a contest before neutral judges and juries. The defense lawyer is torn between his role as a truth-seeking officer of the court and his duty to fight as hard as possible for his client...